Polymer nanocomposite dielectrics for capacitive energy storage

M Yang, M Guo, E Xu, W Ren, D Wang, S Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Owing to their excellent discharged energy density over a broad temperature range, polymer
nanocomposites offer immense potential as dielectric materials in advanced electrical and …

Topological phases in polar oxide nanostructures

J Junquera, Y Nahas, S Prokhorenko, L Bellaiche… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
The past decade has witnessed dramatic progress related to various aspects of emergent
topological polar textures in oxide nanostructures displaying vortices, skyrmions, merons …

Topological magnetic and ferroelectric systems for reservoir computing

K Everschor-Sitte, A Majumdar, K Wolk… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Topological spin textures in magnetic materials and arrangements of electric dipoles in
ferroelectrics are considered to be promising candidates for next-generation information …

Topological transformation and free-space transport of photonic hopfions

Y Shen, B Yu, H Wu, C Li, Z Zhu… - Advanced …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Structured light fields embody strong spatial variations of polarization, phase, and amplitude.
Understanding, characterization, and exploitation of such fields can be achieved through …

Spontaneous electric-polarization topology in confined ferroelectric nematics

J Yang, Y Zou, W Tang, J Li, M Huang, S Aya - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Topological textures have fascinated people in different areas of physics and technologies.
However, the observations are limited in magnetic and solid-state ferroelectric systems …

Scalar optical hopfions

C Wan, Y Shen, A Chong, Q Zhan - eLight, 2022 - Springer
Hopfions are three-dimensional (3D) topological states discovered in field theory,
magnetics, and hydrodynamics that resemble particle-like objects in physical space …

Hopfions, heliknotons, skyrmions, torons and both abelian and nonabelian vortices in chiral liquid crystals

JS Wu, II Smalyukh - Liquid Crystals Reviews, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Widely known for their uses in displays and electro-optics, liquid crystals are more than just
technological marvels. They vividly reveal the topology and structure of various solitonic and …

Topological bimeronic beams

Y Shen - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
This Letter proposes a family of structured light, called bimeronic beams, that characterize
topological structures of bimeron (the quasiparticle homeomorphic to skyrmion). The …

Polarization topology at the nominally charged domain walls in uniaxial ferroelectrics

Y Tikhonov, JR Maguire, CJ McCluskey… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ferroelectric domain walls provide a fertile environment for novel materials physics. If a
polarization discontinuity arises, it can drive a redistribution of electronic carriers and …

Entangled polarizations in ferroelectrics: A focused review of polar topologies

YJ Wang, YL Tang, YL Zhu, XL Ma - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Ferroelectric crystals feature asymmetric or polar structures that are switchable under an
external electric field, holding promise for information storage. Nanoscale ferroelectrics …